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Anonimity in Health-oriented Social Networks
AbstractWeb 2.0 philosophy of content creation has spread to many domains including healthcare. A new trend in social networks is to serve specialized, niche-oriented participants, with unique interests. We study what are the advantages, disadvantages and concerns when deploying a social network in the health domain; to be used for sharing information about treatment outcomes and conditions. Our paper raises the privacy concern, namely anonymization, when different stakeholders use such a platform